Rooting your dreams is funny, but tiresome.
I've done it several several times, but I have always woke up in the next 10 minutes. Most times because of the alarm clock. Too late.
Ziggy wrote...
What happens to me a lot of times will be that I'll be sleeping and my alarm will go off and interrupt the dream. I'll hit snooze and go back to sleep and it'll continue as if the alarm was simply a pause button.
I also can suspend my dreams for some time. Furthermore, in fact, I have three states:
[sleeping]<-->[partial-awake]--->[awake]
****^*******************************|
****|_______________________________|
During the partial-awake state I can almost open the eyes and do things partially conscious. Then I have to actually wake up, or return to sleeping, which includes restoring the dream.
Once I woke up, all the remaining dreams memories are flagged as 'free', and I lost them gradually along the day.